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Issue 8 - Differentiation
Differentiation continues to be one of the toughest areas that even the most experienced of teachers have to contend with. Trying to ensure thirty students of all different abilities make the required progress doesn't just frighten NQTs. This week we take a look at the many different ways to differentiate your lessons, with lots of practical strategies to add to your toolbox.
Differentiating Differentiation
Ex head teacher Chris Chivers guides us through how you can differentiate your differentiation, by analysing the effectiveness of all of the popular strategies.
Twitter: @chrischivers2
A Gifted and Talented Approach to Differentiation
Head teacher Tom Sherrington shares how he embraces a total philosophy towards gifted and talented provision and how this is at the core of his differentiation beliefs.
Read Tom's blog post - Gifted and Talented Provision: A Total Philosophy
Twitter: @HeadGuruTeacher
SORTing Your Differentiation
When planning differentiation at Calderstones School in Liverpool, the teaching and learning team SORT their students to provide differentiation by Support, Outcome, Resource and Task. This practical guide gives you over 100 different strategies to try.
Twitter: @CaldiesTandL
Want More?
For further research and reading on differentiation, head over to the Differentiation section of Edssential or the DiffCentral website.
Credits and Sharing
Edited by Jon Tait, Assistant Head Teacher at Woodham Academy.
Articles sourced via Twitter and reproduced with permission of the authors.
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Website: www.woodham.org.uk
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